How to format your references using the Polymer Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Polymer Reviews. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

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Ferry, G. The Making of an Exceptional Scientist. Nature 2010, 464 (7293), 1268–1270.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Field, J.; Brace, S. Pre-Social Benefits of Extended Parental Care. Nature 2004, 428 (6983), 650–652.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Iyengar, V. K.; Reeve, H. K.; Eisner, T. Paternal Inheritance of a Female Moth’s Mating Preference. Nature 2002, 419 (6909), 830–832.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Nair, D. T.; Johnson, R. E.; Prakash, L.; Prakash, S.; Aggarwal, A. K. Rev1 Employs a Novel Mechanism of DNA Synthesis Using a Protein Template. Science 2005, 309 (5744), 2219–2222.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

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Voldman, S. H. ESD; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

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Thriving in a New World Economy: Proceedings of the 2012 World Marketing Congress/Cultural Perspectives in Marketing Conference; Plangger, K., Ed.; Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Vijayaraghavan, S. B. Abdominal Hernias, Volvulus and Intussusception. In Ultrasound of the Gastrointestinal Tract; Maconi, G., Porro, G. B., Eds.; Medical Radiology; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; pp 35–54.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Polymer Reviews.

Blog post

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Andrew, E. Barriers, Canals And Fake Islands: How We Can Save Cities From Rising Sea Levels https://www.iflscience.com/environment/barriers-canals-and-fake-islands-how-we-can-save-cities-rising-sea-levels/ (accessed Oct 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

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Government Accountability Office. Cost Comparison of House of Representatives Page System Versus Regular Messenger Employees; GGD-83-108; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

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Tran, L. N. Low-Cost Vehicle Remote Diagnostic System. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2013.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

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Barron, J. A Tree Older Than Columbus Finally Succumbs. New York Times. October 16, 2016, p A15.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Polymer Reviews
Abbreviation	Polym. Rev. (Phila. Pa)
ISSN (print)	1558-3724
ISSN (online)	1558-3716
Scope	General Chemistry Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Biomedical Engineering Electrical and Electronic Engineering Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Polymers and Plastics